It was found that dracut-generated initramfs would drop a local user to an emergency shell when decryption of a LUKS-encrypted (Linux Unified Key Setup) partition failed. An attacker with physical access to a machine or with access to the boot console of a system could potentially brute-force the LUKS password using the dracut shell, and possibly be able to copy off the encrypted partition for...

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